After Stalin abandoned Lenin’s internationalism and started promoting the socialism in one country model, it was mostly downhill. Even though Stalin executed most of the Nazbol leadership, he appropriated the same sort of Russian nationalism to drive support for the Winter War in Finland, which was an absolute disaster.

The USSR’s ideological project of international socialism ended with Lenin. Stalin went full hog nationalist and the USSR’s socialist project never really recovered after Stalin’s purges. Stalin eliminated 75% of the Comintern.

Nikolay Bukharin who advocated for gradual changes in agricultural policies like collectivization would have been a much better leader imho. A trained economist who worked out models on decentralizing a command economy, he was one of the last purged by Stalin in the Great Purge.

Read it in a book long ago.

Found an article with some of the keywords, but it is just the abstract. There are 10 sources for the paper though.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-1331.1999.tb00004.x

Stalin near the end had gone through half-a-dozen strokes, and was taking medical advice from a veterinarian.

His suspicious nature went into full blown paranoia, and he pretty much lost it.

The Stalin personality cult era after WWII when he was slipping off into dementia while suffering delusions doesn’t really need to be defended. Even the USSR admonished Stalin for his mismanagement and cruelty.

Emigration slowed down during the Khrushchev era, and then picked up again after the Afghanistan war debacle began unfolding. So it is not like it was constant either.

America’s premier sports-diplomat.

:juche-rose:

Give mensheviks their own little republik.

The UK has a major problem with boomer second wave feminists taking up most of the positions of power in old media.

Does anyone know why that is? I don’t see that in other countries - not to the level of TERF island.

If you read the Handmaid’s Tale it is even worse when it comes to race.

All the horrible shit shown in the show only happens to white people in the books. Black people are in concentration camps in the book, but they are only mentioned for two sentences as the “Children of Ham”. Atwood loves writing about white women, but she has many tricks to make entire races of other women dissapear in her stories.

White CIS women got into positions of power and then kicked away the ladder.